(she/her/hers)
Playwright, Snow in Midsummer
Other plays: The World of Extreme Happiness, Lidless, 410[GONE].
Other theatres: International: Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre, Trafalgar Studios 2 (West End). Regional: Manhattan Theatre Club, Goodman Theatre, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Crowded Fire, Page 73 Productions, InterAct Theatre Company, Borderlands Theater.
Commissions: South Coast Repertory, Goodman Theatre, National Theatre.
Awards: Wasserstein Prize, Yale Drama Series Award, Edinburgh Fringe First Award, David A. Callichio Award, Keene Prize for Literature.
Residencies: Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, Hedgebrook, Ragdale, Sundance Playwright Retreats at Ucross and Flying Point, Santa Fe Art Institute.
Other credits: Playwright-in-Residence at Manhattan Theatre Club and Marin Theatre Company; head of dramatic writing program, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Publishers: Yale University Press, Glimmer Train, Methuen Drama, Samuel French and Dramatists Play Service.
Education: MFA in Writing, James A. Michener Center for Writers at University of Texas, Austin; BA in Sociology, Brown University, certificate in Ensemble-Based Physical Theatre, Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre.
She was born in Philadelphia, and raised in Northern Virginia, Okinawa, Taipei and Beijing.